Nothing's Greater Than A Mother's Love For A Child
Willow Clemons || NEUTRAL || 42 || School Principal

February 15th, 1970

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

To the outside world it may seem like Willow has been struggling her whole life, but to her it’s just surviving. Willow was born in Alberta, Virginia - a very, very small town. Population being 285, when secrets and rumors were spread there was no way to stop them. The first thing to hit her was her parent’s divorce at the age of ten and everything seemed to go downhill after that. She took turns living with parents but she eventually began to rebel. She would get drunk in public, do drugs, and be brought home in a cop car night after night. The neighbors and other girls would whisper how much of a whore she was, and all the men she had slept with. Willow barely graduated high school, and decided she would get the hell out of Virginia. There was only problem, she had gotten herself knocked up. After getting pregnant at nineteen and giving birth to her first child, Hayden, she hit a point where she thought she would never get anywhere in life as a young, single, mother. Willow made her way to Ohio where she became a waitress at a diner in order to feed her son. She was barely getting by, but as long as she had a dollar in her pocket she was sure she could do whatever she set her mind to. She began studying for school again, wanting to become a teacher but eventually hit another wall - she met another man. This time he wooed her with gifts, showered her and Hayden in presents, until she found out one small detail. He was married.

Devastated, Willow took Hayden and did the one thing she knew she could do right; runaway. It wasn’t until she reached Wisconsin when she realized she was pregnant. Nine short months later Willow welcomed Kirsten into the world and found herself alone with a five year old toddler and a new born baby girl. Somehow she found herself Chicago bound when she met the father of her third child on the way, a lawyer originally from New York. The man took everything in stride, being perfectly fine with taking on the baggage of two more kids and was even thrilled when Willow became pregnant with her third child. He helped her work her way back through school and eventually found a job at Lincoln High School as their principal. Just as things seemed to be looking up, they crashed back down when she was walked out on again. This time she didn’t run, knowing her children liked Chicago and after a string of moves and failed relationships, she knew stability was what they needed. Willow is still currently the principal at Lincoln and is very aware of the ongoing war. She scolds her kids daily to stay away from the Malone’s and Rosario’s, terrified enough to even meet with the parents of each family. She realizes this war is over an innocent death but she’ll be damned if she let’s it be brought into her school.

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